INDIAN UNREST.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 769, 18 March 1910, Page 5

INDIAN UNREST.

CHARGE OF MURDER. ASSASSINATION OF A MAGISTRATE. EVIDENCE AT THE TRIAL. By Telegraph-Press ABaocio-tion-Oonyrlßht. (Rec. March 17, 10.30 p.m.) Calcutta, March 17. At the trial of Kanare for the murder of Mr. A. ■ Jackson, Collector at Nasik, the police produced a document found on Kanare saying that he killed Mr. Jackson for acquitting a European charged with murder, and for oppressing the poor. The document also stated that unless the work of administration were made impossible the evils would continue unchecked.

THE STORY OF THE CRIME. Last Christmas was ushered, in by the dastardly murder of Mr. A. M. T. Jackson, of the Indian Civil Service, Collector of Nasik (writes the "Times" correspondent). On December 21 Mr. Jackson, accompanied by the Assistant-Collector, the Postmaster-General, and soiho ladies, wont to the native theatre. As the party entered a young Hindu stepped out, aimed a revolver at Mr. Jackson's chest, and fired. He missed his first shot, but before he could bo disarmed fired again and again, one bullet striking tho victim in the heart. Death was almost instantaneous. It is impossible to describe the grief and indignation arousod by the crime. Mr. Jackson was beloved by'alclasses of Indians. An. eminent Sanscritist and a distinguished Marathi scholar, he was respected as a pandit. His personal kindness and courtesy had gained tho affection of all. Nasik city being a groat place of pilgrimage, is a notorious Brahminical centre, but even there Mr. Jackson was greatly respected and liked. The municipality immediately ■ met and declared their detestation of the deed. Both in its physical and psychological surroundings the crime bears a remarkable analogy to . the Bengal outrages. The assassin, a youth, is reported when seized to have attempted suicide. The crime, which was indubitably political, follows with sinister rapidity upon the sentence of transportation for life passed upon Ganesh Damodher Savarkar, a Chitpavan Brahmin of Nasik, for the dual "offences of waging war against the King and sedition. Mr. Jackson's assassin used a Browning automatic pistol, firing seven shots in quick succession with fatal effect. A loaded revolver was found in' his pocket. He did not attempt to escape: His name is Ananta Luxman' Kanare, aged IS.. He is a Chitpavan Brahmin from Ranagiri, who for ton years has lived with an uncle at Aurangabad. He came from Aurangabad with the. deliberate intention of committing the murder. He says that Mr. Jackson was murdered because of the life sentence passed on Savarkar. In fact Mr. Jackson did not pass the sentence, but ■ the Sessions.. Judge, and it was recently confirmed on appeal. The prisoner repeats this 61017, in parrot fashion, as one who has learned a lesson, and is undoubtedly the agent of abler men.